Throughout the 2014 baseball season, the Pittsburgh Pirates are paying tribute to Ralph Kiner, the six-time All-Star slugger who played in Pittsburgh from 1946 until 1953.Kiner, who died last February at the age of 91, was also a legend in the broadcast booth. While he was the voice of two ...
I was watching the 1966 movie "Blow-Up'' the other night, and I saw one of the characters engage in an activity that may have seemed peculiar to today鈥檚 teenagers.A London photographer, played by David Hemmings, stepped into a phone booth, and he made a telephone call.He did it without using ...
It was 50 years ago this month that it was reported that 4,000 Boy Scouts had descended on the Fayette County Fairgrounds as part of a mammoth camporee.On the front page of the June 6, 1964 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald that a 鈥淪cout City鈥� housed a three day-long event that was ...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry鈥檚 at it again. You have to wonder if he鈥檒l come down with foot-and-mouth disease, all of the times he鈥檚 stuck his foot in his mouth.Oh, wait. I just checked, and medical scientists say only cloven-hoofed animals can contract foot-and-mouth disease. And one thing I do ...
There are times when I come across answers to questions I never really pondered.My usual reply is, 鈥淥h, yeah. That makes sense. I never really thought of that before.鈥漈he Uniontown Evening Standard printed an article on its sports pages 72 years ago today, that, at first, didn鈥檛 strike me ...
Well, it looks like the Republican Party has a lot of second-guessing to do. Virginia鈥檚 7th District, seven-term House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, is now heading for the unemployment line come next January.Gee, I wonder if he鈥檒l try to extend those long-term unemployment benefits before ...